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La Salle, Illinois: Open Court, Date: 1986. Hardcover. VG-/VG- (ex-library with labels and stamps on spine, block, front and rear end pages, pages are otherwise clean.). Blue cloth boards, gilt lettering on spine; bw illustrated dust jacket with blue lettering, mylar cover; xvi, 705 pp; bw portrait frontispiece. Contents: Part 1. Autobiography of W.V. Quine -- Part 2. Descriptive and critical essays on the philosophy of W.V. Quine, with replies [by Quine] -- 1. Quine on meaning / William P. Alston -- 2. Quine on analyticity / Herbert G. Bohnert -- 3. Essentialism and reference / Dagfinn Føllesdal -- 4. An argument in favor of the Duhem-Quine thesis: from the structuralist point of view / Ulrich Gähde and Wolfgang Stegmüller -- 5. Translation, physics, and facts of the matter / Roger F. Gibson, Jr. -- 6. Nominalisms / Nelson Goodman -- 7. Quine's grammar / Gilbert Harman -- 8. Logical truth by linguistic convention / Geoffrey Hellman -- 9. Quine on who's who / Jaakko Hintikka -- 10. Opacity / David Kaplan -- 11. Discourse and event: the logician and reality / Harold N. Lee -- 12. Translational indeterminacy and the mind-body problem / Arnold B. Levison -- 13. Experience, theory, and language / Robert Nozick -- 14. Quine on the philosophy of mathematics / Charles Parsons -- 15. Meaning holism / Hilary Putnam -- 16. Semantics without foundations / Paul A. Roth -- 17. Quine, Ajdukiewicz, and the predicament of 20th century philosophy / Henryk Skolimowski -- 18. Quine on ...

La Salle, Illinois Open Court 1986 Hardcover VG-/VG-(ex-library with labels and stamps on spine, block, front and rear end pages, pages are otherwise clean. ) Blue cloth boards, gilt lettering on spine; bw illustrated dust jacket with blue lettering, mylar cover; xvi, 705 pp; bw portrait frontispiece. Contents: Part 1. Autobiography of W.V. Quine--Part 2. Descriptive and critical essays on the philosophy of W.V. Quine, with replies [by Quine]--1. Quine on meaning / William P. Alston--2. Quine on analyticity / Herbert G. Bohnert--3. Essentialism and reference / Dagfinn Føllesdal--4. An argument in favor of the Duhem-Quine thesis: from the structuralist point of view / Ulrich Gähde and Wolfgang Stegmüller--5. Translation, physics, and facts of the matter / Roger F. Gibson, Jr. --6. Nominalisms / Nelson Goodman--7. Quine's grammar / Gilbert Harman--8. Logical truth by linguistic convention / Geoffrey Hellman--9. Quine on who's who / Jaakko Hintikka--10. Opacity / David Kaplan--11. Discourse and event: the logician and reality / Harold N. Lee--12. Translational indeterminacy and the mind-body problem / Arnold B. Levison--13. Experience, theory, and language / Robert Nozick--14. Quine on the philosophy of mathematics / Charles Parsons--15. Meaning holism / Hilary Putnam--16. Semantics without foundations / Paul A. Roth--17. Quine, Ajdukiewicz, and the predicament of 20th century philosophy / Henryk Skolimowski--18. Quine on space-time / J.J.C. Smart--19. Reference and its ...

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Date: 1975. [Cambridge, Mass. and other locations, c. 1975 - c. 1995. Octavo. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket Original Stapled Offprints etc. [The Library of Living Philosophers Volume XVIII]. Willard Van Orman Quine (June 25, 1908 – December 25, 2000) (known to intimates as "Van") was an American philosopher and logician in the analytic tradition, recognized as "one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century." From 1930 until his death 70 years later, Quine was continually affiliated with Harvard University in one way or another, first as a student, then as a professor of philosophy and a teacher of logic and set theory, and finally as a professor emeritus who published or revised several books in retirement. He filled the Edgar Pierce Chair of Philosophy at Harvard from 1956 to 1978. A recent poll conducted among analytic philosophers named Quine as the fifth most important philosopher of the past two centuries. He won the first Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy in 1993 for "his systematical and penetrating discussions of how learning of language and communication are based on socially available evidence and of the consequences of this for theories on knowledge and linguistic meaning." In 1996 he was awarded the Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy for his "outstanding contributions to the progress of philosophy in the 20th century by proposing numerous theories based on keen insights in logic, epistemology, philosophy of science and ...